Pogs should come back

I literally have multiple copies of Wikipedia offline. Including one on a USB stick.

I don’t think it would ever be possible to delete all records of history short of blowing up the entire planet at which point its quite moot.

This is a really important take that not enough people understand.

Very few people are asking for universal socialism. Capitalism works fine for some industries, Socialism works great for some industries. The government needs to figure out which ones are which, and implement rules around that.

The big one right now that people are just starting to figure out is that capitalism sucks at real estate. The free market failures there are significant and causing a lot of problems.

IMO land should be strictly owned by the government, and only rented to citizens. This should be the primary source of tax revenue for a country, not income taxes. Use more land, pay more taxes. Use less land, pay less taxes. Land taxes also benefit from being the only thing you can never hide, because you can’t put it under a table or move it offshore.

past, not passed

If that’s all you want to do, one of the cheaper Ubiquiti managed gateways would probably work and not break the bank.

If you want to tinker even harder, an open source router running https://openwrt.org/ (or even their own device) may be a good option.

Why?

You must only play doubles, and at a low level.

You aren’t going to find a useful AI system for personal use in Finance, you simply don’t have the scale needed to benefit from it. You don’t make enough transactions per month that looking over it yourself is going to be any slower than reading the AI summary.

The question as with most process optimization and data analysis is, what’s the actual result you’re hoping for? If you want it to be able to summarize WALMART, WAL-MART and WMART so you can see those numbers added together, you already know you spent a lot at Walmart. Whare are you going to actually do with that information?

Saving money doesn’t really need an AI, there really aren’t many ways to cut budgets down short of paying attention to the most obvious spending problems (Too much housing, too much vehicle, too much food (especially eating out), and too much entertainment(too many subscription platforms))

It’s usually a far better investment of time to improve your earning power (upskill, change jobs, add hours, etc.)

Cutting $40 per month from your budget by not going to the movies every week just isn’t going to have the impact you need in your life.

The big one for me is even worse, the way they were raised.

“I became my own person” no you fucking didn’t, you still hold fundamental biases and function based on things you aren’t even aware of.

Everything is programmed in, EVERYTHING.

You think eating bugs is gross? Programmed in.

You hate the number 4(parts of asia)? Programmed in.

You sing Happy Birthday at a party while serving a cake? Programmed in.

Yup, I stopped worrying about extra lane changes and pushing the speed limit when I realized that it was literally saving me 1-2 minutes at best. Not worth the risk or the hassle.

Had this problem at highscool, I could tell if the TV mounted in the room ceiling was on even if the screen was black. I had to ask the teachers to turn them off, they’d look at it and say “it is” and then we’d have an argument about not being able to hear anything. Eventually I would prove it by turning away, and having them randomly turn it off and on and I could tell them when it was off vs on.

Very frustrating, but I got old and now I can’t hear shit

Good morning ChatGPT, Give me a ten word poem please.

There are 8 billion people in the world, “anyone” doesn’t apply to anything.

Tease him enough to distract him.

Even if you could shave off 50% at idle, you’re talking about like $0.10 per day in power savings. Is it really worth spending any time on that?

We were well into the internet in 2010…

Hell, we were well into the internet in 2000

Just get an old phone that doesn’t have a SIM in it, uninstall any apps you don’t want want that could be used locally, forget your wifi networks, load it up with music via usb, connect it to your Bluetooth headphones and go.

Parents will parent until they die

A child can choose to stop listening anytime after they’re no longer financially reliant upon the parent

It absorbs a lot, and it channels a lot of the blast up.

Yes, but also its not easy to smuggle a large bomb either.